Federal Circuit: Muller v. GPO

Administrative, Arbitration

Statutory time period for arbitration is a housekeeping rule, not a jurisdictional limit on the scope of arbitrablility of claim.

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-orders/15-3032.Opinion.1-12-2016.1.PDF

Ninth Circuit: USA v. Estate of Wayne Hage

Property, Administrative

Water rights merely alow for access to divert the water - there are no appurtenant grazing rights implied as an easement of necessity.

Filing of government suit is not a final agency decision subject to review under the APA.

Reassigned on remand.

https://d3bsvxk93brmko.cloudfront.net/datastore/opinions/2016/01/15/13-16974.pdf

Eighth Circuit: United States v. Justin Janis

Tribe Law, Agency

While tribal police, as a class, are considered federal employees as a matter of law, as they are enforcing order pursuant to a contract with the BIA, the question of whether any person is acting as a tribal officer is a question of fact to be resolved at trial.

http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/16/01/143888P.pdf

Eighth Circuit: Shane Bailey v. Don Feltmann

S1983 - DP/4A

No error in grant of qualified immunity on claim of unconscionable delay in medical treatment, as there was no clearly established right under the Fourth Amendment or Due Process.

http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/16/01/143859P.pdf

Eighth Circuit: Inoel Gonzalez Cano v. Loretta E. Lynch

Immigration

Sufficient evidence for agency finding that petitioner's social group was too ill-defined to warrant relief.

http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/16/01/143730P.pdf



Seventh Circuit: Kelly Sonnenberg v. Amaya Group Holdings (IOM) Ltd

Statutory Construction

Anti-gambling statute does not have an implied cause of action for third parties to recover gambling losses from websites that hosted the game, but that were not the winning parties in the game.

http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2016/D01-15/C:15-1887:J:Posner:aut:T:fnOp:N:1688160:S:0

Fourth Circuit: Philip McFarland v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Contracts

Under state law, lack of a showing on substantive unconscionability of the agreement does not bar a finding of unconscionable inducement.

http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/142126.P.pdf


Third Circuit: In Re Trump Entertainment Resorts

Labor / Bankruptcy

The Bankruptcy Code provisions referencing CBAs apply to the terms of the prior CBA left in place after the end of a prior CBA -- the District Court therefore had jurisdiction under the Code to allow modification of the terms of the agreement, subject to the close scrutiny of the court.

http://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/144807p.pdf